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United States Patent() POCKET CONTAINER William E. Hoeliin, St. Louis, Mo. Application June z8, 1954, serial No. 439,595

7 Claims. (cl. 15o-.5)

The invention relates to a device comprising a combination of relatively stiff, but distortable, material, such as one or more sheets of pressboard, and a binding therefor consisting of relatively rough,.pliable material secured to the stiif sheet by its inherent adhesive qualities or by pressure or heat, an example of such material being generally known as pressure-sensitive industrial cloth.

A preferred embodiment of the invention consistsof a holder, such as is commonly used for pens and pencils, and is usually inserted in the pocket in a coat or vest or other article of clothing, although it may be carried in a brief case, purse, or bag, or pocket secretary.

The objects of the invention are to protect the clothing or the carrier of the user from undue bulging or from being snagged by the articles inserted in the holder; to protect the clothing or other carrier from ink, pencil marks, puncture, etc.; and to facilitate the insertion and removal of articles carried in the pockets.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate selected embodiments of the invention,

Figure l is a front view of an assembly comprising an outer case and an inner receptacle supplied with pen and pencil.

Figure 2 is a vertical section taken on the line 2--2 of Figure 1.

' Figure 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line 3 3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a front view of the receptacle removed from the case.

Figure 5 is a front view of a modified structure comprising a wallet with a currency positioning insert unit.

Figure 6 is Va front elevation of the unit indicated in Figure 5, removed from the wallet.

In Figures l-4, A represents a case which may be formed of attractive and relatively expensive leather sheets 1, 2, stitched together at 3 in the usual manner to form a rectangular pocket with three sides of its periphery secured together, the fourth or upper side being open.

Slidably and snugly fitting within case A is a receptacle B, consisting mainly of two overlying, quadrilateral sheets 4, 5 of relatively stiff, but distortable, smooth-surface material, such as pressboard. Strips 6 of relatively thin, pliable material, such as pressure-sensitive industrial cloth or gummed fabric, are applied to the upright marginal portions of sheets 4 and 5, each strip overlying the corresponding contiguous edges of the sheets and adhering to the sheets by the innate characteristics of the strips and securing the sheets together by such adherence and without requiring any stitching glue, staples, or other securing means which might tend to increase the bulk of the receptacle along its edges or to render the sheets less susceptible of being distorted throughout their width. A similar binding strip 7 is applied to the lower marginal portions and edges of sheet 4 and 5 and forms a bottom for the receptacle.

To facilitate the insertion of pens, pencils, etc., as indicated at C, D, the sheets 4 and 5 are preferably distorted so that they are bowed horizontally and vertically,

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as-best indicated in Figures 2 and 3. This distortion may be effected by shaping the sheets with a forming die or by notching the lower margin of each sheet as indicated at 8 and bringing the edgesof the notch together as at 8a before applying strip 7 and, if necessary, applying an extra reinforcing binding strip 9 to the sheets while they are held distorted.

Individual binding strips 10 are applied to the upper edge of each sheet 4, 5, being folded over the sheet edge, thus protecting the edge -of the sheet from being nicked by the clips L ofthe pens and pencils.

With this construction, a pen, pencil, etc., may be readily inserted within the receptacle B and will be retained by its contact with the rough finished, pressuresensitive binding 10, irrespective of clipsL, althoughv the latter may be readily slipped over the individual receptacle sheet and top binding strip. The receptacle will be retained in the outer case A by its snug lit therein and by the friction between the side binding strips 6 and the inner face of the case.

The user may be a salesman or auditor having a set of pens and pencils which he may want to carry in his pocket 0r have ready for use on his desk. If so, he may remove the receptacle and lay it on the desk where it serves as a convenient pen and pencil holder so that the pens and pencils may be kept conveniently togetherv and yet quickly replaced as a group in the case and inthe users pocket. When a pen is to be inserted in the receptacle, the bowed contour of the latter, as indicated in Figure 3, will facilitate the insertion of the end of the pen or pencil into the receptacle or, if the receptacle is not initially bowed, its sheets may be readily distorted away from each other by pressure applied by the thumb or linger at oppositeedges.

In this respect, the relatively stiff sheets function differently from the usual case made of substitute leather, which is likely to double over ina fold, if pressure is applied to opposite edges, instead of gaping'open to receive the pen or pencil. s

The pocket container shown in Figures 5 andv 6 comprises an outer case K, which may be formed in the usual manner, and of choice leather, and is provided with small pockets 20 for cards, etc., and with one or more pockets 21 for currency, indicated at R, Vwhich is folded over a sheet 22 of relatively stiff, but deformable, material, to the edges of which are applied binding strips 23 of pressuresensitive, industrial cloth, as previously described, which restrain the sheet 22, and the currency folded thereover, from slipping out of case K.

With this arrangement, the currency may be folded over the insert to form a ilat unit which may be inserted into the case, thus avoiding the inconvenience and risk of opening the entire wallet in order to insert a bill unfolded, as is a common practice.

The combination of the relatively stiff, but deformable, smooth-surface sheets and the relatively pliable, inherently adherent binding strips, may be incorporated in various devices, such as change cases, comb cases, card cases, key cases, memorandum cases, etc., and other materials may be used for those described, such as body sheets of thin metal, cardboard, plastics, and binding strips of rough-surface fabric having adhesive applied to one face for securing the same to the smooth-surface body sheets. To further restrain the device from slipping out of a garment pocket, a part 24 of a snap fastener may be aflixed to the outside of the device and positioned to be gripped by a mating fastener 25 secured to the garment G.

The details of the construction may be varied otherwise than as shown without departing from the spirit of the invention and the exclusive use of those modifications coming within the scope of the invention is contemplated.

1. A receptacle for insertion in a clothing pocket or the like, comprising two sheets of relatively smooth-surface, stiff material, opposing oneanlother. with corresponding edges adjacentto each other, and abindin'g yfor vsaid sheetsuconsisting Ioa.. strip of relatively:p1iable,'irough material covering a-plurality)ofcontiguousedgeslfof said sheets and Afolded over the. adjacent. marginalpoxtions of said sheets rand securingsaid sheetsitogethenandadapted to resist sliding of the receptacle over the .materialiof.-a pocket `into which 'the receptaelezis inserted, at least one pair ofcoutiguous edges .being exposedi-andiproviding for insertion of an object .between 'thesheetsl v 2. A receptacleot fthe 5classzdescribed, comprising fa pairV `ot? super-imposed, VquadrilateralV f sheets of irelat'ively stit, lbutfdistortable,"smoothsurface material, Vand a binding 'of frelativfely thin, piiable, .'rough-surfacefmaterial overlying and-adhering *to atfleasttwo .of "the contiguous marginalzportionsof said sheets. and' 'forming the .sole

meansforsecuring said sheetstto each other,4 said binding f being .applied to other marginal :portions ofeachot` said sheets individually, but leaving said latter-mentioned I marginal portions free of each other to beispacedapart 'for the insertion of objects between the sheets.

..3. `A receptacle of vthe class described, comprisingia and extending over `the adjacent edges of both sheets vand then `folded back over the corresponding marginal .portions of the other sheet, thesheets .being bendable away from :each other along the fourth .marginal portion `of each sheet toaccommodate the insertion of objects between 'the sheets.

4. YA .receptacle for .insertion in a clothingpocket or the like, comprising a plurality of yrectangular sheets .of stiff, but bendable, pressboard, lying .dat against each other with corresponding .edges contiguous to eachother, and a relatively.narrow.bindingvconsisting ofa strip lof pressure-sensitive, :industrial cloth embracing 'the marginal portions of said sheets along two parallel ec'lgesland one connecting edge and securing said sheetstogether throughoutthe major portion of theperiphery of the. contiguous edges, there being 'a'. substantial extent -of said periphery exposed to accommodate insertion vof an objectlbetween the sheets.

"5.'A receptacle of vthe vclass described comprising a .pair of .quadrilateral-.sheets of..sti1, .but .distortab1e, pressboard overlying each other, with their edges contiguous, and contacting with each other, the sheets being bowed between two spaced apart opposite edges of the pair of sheets, a relatively narrow binding strip of pressure-sensitive, industrial cloth folded over the contiguous edges of said sheets at said opposite edges and over the contiguous edges at one end of the pair of sheets connecting said first mentioned two edges and overlying the adjacent marginal portions of the sheets to secure the sheets together and to resist their slippage over the material of a pocket into which Vthe receptacle is inserted,` the margins of the sheets along said connecting edges united by the binding being notched to permit the ready distortion of the portions of the sheets spaced from saidend to accommodate the insertion of objects between the sheets.

6. A receptacle of the class described comprising two sheets Vof relatively stiff, but distortable, material 'overlying .eachother 'with their edges substantially lsuper-imposed, thevsheets having V-'shaped notches extendinginwardly from one -pair of said superimposed edges, binding ot" readily pliable .material `applied .to the -marginal portions ofrsaid sheets :adjacent to said pair of edges 'and covering-said notches and 'folded over the corresponding vedges and forming a'closed 'bottom of thereceptacle,and similar binding extending 'along the marginal portions .of the sheets `extending Langularly from said first-mentioned portions andtolded vover the corresponding edges and forming closedsides of the receptacle.

7. A receptacle as described `in c1aim.6, in which a separate pliable, thin, rough-surface, binding strip isapplied to the fourth vmarginal portion of each sheet Aindividually to V.protect the corresponding. edge and resist slippage of the receptacle over the material of. a pocket or the like into which it :may tbe inserted.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED YSTATES PATENTS v405,874 

